"Uncle, I'm going to stay too!"

Seeing that Lao Wu and Lao Zhang didn't go home, the young and active teacher couldn't help but be tempted.

Cultural life in the mountains is already poor, and she doesn't want to miss a group activity like fishing.

"Girl, you don't know how to fish, what are you doing here? Come home with me, and help your mother grind potato flour in the afternoon!"

Secretary Che looked at his daughter lovingly, and stopped on the side of the road with Zhao Wenwen.

"Tell my mother that I'll play for a while and then go back! Uncle, I'll dig earthworms for you! Kill fish and stew fish soup! Hehe!"

There was something to play on the unit's side, and Mr. Che had already left the housework assigned by his mother behind, waved his hand to his father without looking back, and returned to the playground.

Secretary Che had no choice but to smile bitterly twice, and went down the mountain with Zhao Wenwen.

Half a month later, Wang Shichuan, the father of the adult son, and Wang Shichun, the uncle, came to Hongshiwan Primary School together to visit their old father.

Now that the days outside the mountain are getting better day by day, the old brothers are very worried that the adult father who has suffered for half his life will be wronged here.

Wang Shichuan dealt with carpenters from all over the world all day long, so the commission of his father Wang Yuanchu was not difficult for him.

The carpenter's household belongings are all complete, planers, chisels, axes, saws, rulers, buckets, and machetes.

He also knew that his old father was very addicted to cigarettes, and it was inconvenient to buy cigarettes in the mountains, so he brought him ten "Double Cat" brand cigarettes at one time.

Wang Yuanchu entertained his two sons with the fatty fish he caught a few days ago, as well as some mountain goods and vegetables brought by Mr. Xiaoche.

The seeds have just been planted in the vegetable garden at the back of the school building, and it will take at least a month to eat the summer melons and vegetables that I have grown.

"Why didn't your mother come with you? Yingzi is studying during this time? There is no slippage, right?"

As the sun set, the father and son sat around the makeshift stone stove by the playground, drinking soju and chatting about family life.

Only then did Wang Yuanchu think of Yan Chong's wife and his daughter Yingzi, who was in the third class of junior high school.

"It's such a long mountain road, we have a hard time walking, if my mother follows along, we won't be able to get here for three days and three nights! It's too remote! Dad, you better find a way to transfer back early!"

Uncle Wang Shichun poured wine for his father, and he had the same idea as the second Wang Shichuan, this place in Hongshi Bay is really too remote. There are different roads without traffic, and a trip is like climbing a 25,000-mile long march.

"I went to Yingzi's homeroom teacher, and the teacher said that Yingzi passed the exam this year, and there was no big problem in going to high school. Wang Shichuan replied.

"I'm not worried about Yingzi's study, but your mother must be lonely alone in Lao Zhuangzi. You two brothers want to find a way, either send it to me, or Shichuan and your family move back to Lao Zhuangzi. I heard that you are going to build a house, go back to the old Zhuangzi to build it. Your family's courtyard in Wang Dazhuang can be reserved for the military to get married in the future!"

The old gentleman had just finished his work and began to worry about his own family affairs again.

"When the conditions here are better, I'll pull my mother over on a cart. My family will definitely not agree to move, whether it is Yingzi, or the military or the soldier, I will not be blushing when I go back to Laozhuang to build a house!"

Wang Shichuan got up and filled all the cups of his father and eldest brother with wine, and muttered, complaining a little about his old father's chaotic command.

The five or six ancestral houses in Yanchong Laozhuang, the bamboo garden trees behind the front house of the village, and such a large yard and homestead, are a big family business.

Yingzi will live in the school after she goes to high school, and it will definitely not work to leave her old mother alone in Zhuangzi.

"Okay. Sekawa, aren't you selling trees, how about selling some wood for me?"

Wang Yuanchu knew the kindness of his second son, so he changed the topic.

"Where did you get the wood? How did you think of selling wood when you taught well? ”

Wang Shichuan was about to drink a drink, and he smiled in surprise when he heard his old father's question.

"The school is struggling at the moment, and the money allocated from above is only enough to pay for teachers' salaries and chalk fees. I wondered if I could sell some wood to patch it up. The forests on this mountain are all school property, Shichuan, you and the army are doing a living selling wood, and they are buying everywhere, why don't you come to me, it must be cheaper than elsewhere, and it can be regarded as a great favor for me!"

Wang Yuanchu pointed to the lush forests on the mountain in front of him, and suggested to his son a little flattering.

"Come to your mountain to harvest trees, we don't have any pants to wear!Dad, I can't help this job, don't blame me!", Wang Shichuan refused his father's request without thinking.

"You and the army want to find a way, it's a big deal that Dad's selling price is lowered. ”

The old father Wang Yuanchu was very angry and bowed his head and drank alcohol, and Wang Shichun hurriedly persuaded both sides when he saw this.

"Big brother, Dad, I'll settle an account for the two of you. Take a boat from Xiangshuitan Pier, and we will charge two yuan each. If the timber is transported back, the freight rate of a stick will definitely be twice that of a person, and the shipowner may not be willing. After Xiangshui Beach went ashore, the more than 40 miles of mountain roads crossed more than a dozen mountains, and the board cars could not go and relied on people to carry them. Your soldiers can't do it, and I can't do it. If we follow the waterway of more than 50 miles in the reservoir area to the end, it is difficult to say whether the hydropower station will give us land. Even if you go ashore, you will go out of the mountains along the war-ready road, and there will be several checkpoints on the way, and there will be no road strips to collect taxes according to the number of roots. Now the market is better than before, and a fir tree can be transported outside the mountain for three or four yuan of water. Big brother, do you calculate how much money do you still have to make with me and your army?"

Wang Shichuan is now an expert in timber trafficking, and he almost opens his mouth to see how many roads and wild roads are there in the Dabie Mountains in northwest China, which roads are easy to walk and which roads are difficult to walk, and where there are management checkpoints.

"According to you, even if the timber in this area of Redstone Bay is given away for free, no one will transport it?"

Listening to Er'er's analysis, Wang Yuanchu's face turned around and asked Wang Shichuan euphemistically.

"That's right, even if the traffic conditions are a little better, the life of the mountain people will be better, and some people have come to buy timber and bamboo in the mountains and forests. ”

To the disappointment of the old father, Wang Shichuan was very embarrassed, and handed Wang Yuanchu a cigarette to light the fire while explaining.

The father and son calmed down for a while, and drank a few glasses of stuffy wine.

"I also let the children pay for their tuition with mountain goods, and it seems that they have to pay for it out of their own pockets. ”

Wang Yuanchu said to himself, after listening to his son's explanation, he felt that the blueprint for relying on the mountains to change the appearance of the school was a bit unworkable.

"Dad, you're collecting the mountain goods! Just teach your books well, why do you worry about those things?"

Wang Shichun heard about his father's collection of mountain goods, and he might have to put his salary in, and he couldn't help complaining about him.

"What can I do, the mountain people's families are poor, and it is quite pitiful to see the children who are out of school at home, so I promised them that they can use mountain goods to pay for tuition. It's not much, and the tuition fee for more than a dozen babies is only one month's salary, so I can improve the food by myself. ”

Wang Shichuan smiled calmly, and the wine of the father and son also came to an end.

"This method is reliable, Dad! What kind of mountain goods are they, I'll deal with it for you!"

I heard that Wang Shichuan came to the spirit of mountain goods, and walked around in various markets in and out of the mountains over the years, and he understood the market of mountain goods, which were all in demand without worrying about sales.

"Sun-dried pine mushrooms, fried wild tea, lacquer oil, tung oil and the like. You can't buy kerosene here, and the mountain people use tung oil to light the lamps at night, which I think is a pity, and it is a good thing to transport it outside the mountain. ”

Wang Yuanchu was full of wine and food, sitting on the side and watching his two sons clean up the dishes and chopsticks, and he was very pleased with the filial piety of the children.

"Dad, big brother, we're going to get rich! We can do 10,000 yuan in a year!"

After listening to the introduction of the old father, Wang Shichuan shouted in ecstasy.

"What's the way to make a fortune?"

Wang Shichun is a kind-hearted old farmer, and his mind is not as active as the second child, so he asked a little puzzled.

"You know, the carpenters and lacquerers outside the mountains can't finish their work all year round. The clay paint and tung oil they use have to come to the Uchiyama every year to procure them. If there is a ready-made source of goods, they will certainly not be able to ask for them, and the price they will give will not be low! There are also mountain goods in pine mushrooms, wild tea, wild boars and pheasants, and the people in the city can sell as many goods as they want! Wei Lan's mother's family makes vermicelli, and one or two hundred catties of sweet potato vermicelli are sold out in one morning at the district market!

Wang Shichuan excitedly pulled his father and eldest brother back to the stone bench, and gave them a detailed introduction to the market where mountain goods are now outside.

"It's so profitable to collect mountain goods, if you can't sell them, it's going to be bad!" Wang Shichun still didn't believe it, and asked his brother.

"Absolutely sure to make a profit! Our brothers join forces, you are stationed here at Dad's side to collect mountain goods, and I am responsible for sales, which is definitely more profitable than selling wood!"

Suddenly came out of this lucrative business, Wang Shichuan was already a little unable to control it.

"How can I have time, there are so many things at home and abroad, your sister-in-law can't be busy alone. ”

The eldest brother Wang Shichun no longer has much momentum, and doing business is not to his liking.

"Don't worry about this business, our school will do it! Shichuan, you can be a second-class dealer in the future! Next trip, go into the mountains and bring some children's stationery, pencils, notebooks, erasers, and ink!"

Shichuan's introduction also made Mr. Wang Yuanchu suddenly brightened, and this kind of win-win mountain goods business was suddenly generated in his mind.

The children exchanged the mountain goods for stationery, the mountain people exchanged the mountain goods for banknotes, and the school bought the mountain goods in their spare time, which can also earn some daily expenses.

Even the manager of the school mountain goods store in the future, he has thought about it, and the car teacher will take over.

"Dad, you belong to a scorpion, and you specialize in biting your own family!Hahaha! The second child finally thought of a way to get rich, and you cut off most of it with this knife!", Wang Shichun laughed gloatingly.

"I'm an old money lover now, and you don't want to tell me all the things that can make money in this mountain. Hehe. ”

The lake surface of the reservoir was flooded with ten thousand rays of light, Wang Yuanchu looked at the distant mountains with relief, and all his worries seemed to open up at this moment.

"The second seller is the second seller! But the father and son settle the account, you must not raise the price, I don't do anything that doesn't make money, you still have two little grandsons waiting for me to support!"

"The price is negotiable, and the purchase price will be determined according to the market outside the mountain! ”

The second son, Shichuan, was about to become the God of Wealth of this Red Rock Bay Primary School, and the old father spoke to him much softer.

"Mao girl, how are Dachengzi studying lately?

Wang Yuanchu suddenly remembered the three grandchildren of the Wang family, and hurriedly turned around to ask the two sons.

"Don't mention it, Mao girl and the others heard that their father is the principal of the elementary school, and they are clamoring to come to you to study all day long!"

"Wang Zi can speak, more solid than when Chengzi was a child!"

The two brothers reported the situation of the three babies to their father one after the other.

"The next time you go into the mountains to smoke on Sunday, take them over to see what kind of learning environment the children in the mountains are! Dachengzi will admit his cowardice if he stays here for a day! Hahaha!"

The last touch of sunset slowly faded, and the whole mountain fell into boundless darkness, and the faint oil lamp like fireflies drew out the lonely devil.

Wang Shichuan looked at his father's old face under the light, and felt full of desolation and pity.

When the two of them didn't come, in such a dark night, only the old father was alone in the deserted village and accompanied by a withered lamp, it should be extremely lonely and fearful, what did he want!

Wang Shichuan decided that the next time he came to Red Rock Bay, he must bring his father a local dog to watch the house.

In such a dark night, the old father was left here alone, and they were too worried as children.